Mindtree opens second Pune facility


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Information technology services firm Mindtree said on Friday that it has opened its second facility in Pune with the capacity to accommodate more than 350 professionals. This is in addition to its Hinjawadi facility that can house 1,300 associates.Located at ICC Tech Park, the new facility measures 43,000sq.ft. Mindtree began operations in Pune the company’s second location in India in 2009 with a more than 200,000-sq.ft. facility in Hinjawadi.The conglomerate stated that on the back of rising global demand for its digital transformation services, it has grown rapidly in Pune over the last few years and today employs more than 3,700 professionals in the city with more than a third of its workforce consisting of women professionals.In the last year alone, despite the pandemic, the company’s Pune headcount has grown by as much as 2.5 times. Mindtree’s Pune centre is now the company’s third-largest globally in terms of headcount. As of Q3, the company’s headcount stood at 31,959.“We are very pleased with our experience in Pune,” said Debashis Chaterjee, CEO and Managing Director of Mindtree. “As one of India’s leading entrepreneurial, industrial and R&D hubs with robust educational infrastructure, rich talent pool, and a forward-looking work ethic, Pune epitomizes all key virtues of a world-class IT destination. We remain steadfast to leveraging our presence in the city to build cutting-edge digital capabilities and foster innovation for tomorrow’s needs.”From Pune, Mindtree provides digital transformation services to some of the world’s largest communications, media, technology, retail, CPG, manufacturing, banking, financial services, insurance, travel, transportation, hospitality, and healthcare companies in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The centre has extensive capabilities in a wide range of areas, including client experience transformation, enterprise IT transformation, automation, digital engineering, Salesforce, digital integration and process automation, cloud, data modernization, DataOps, cybersecurity, and so on.The L&T Group company reported a growth of more than 40% in its top 20 clients in the past year.